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Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule I

Title: First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....the application thereof. (Translations. Rules of application.) CHAPTER IX REPRESSION OF ABUSES AND INFRACTIONS Article 49 The High contracting parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing, or ordering to be committed, any of the grave breaches of the present convention defined in the following Article. (Penal sanctions. I. General observations.) Each High contracting party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High contracting party concerned. Provided such High contracting party has made out a prima facie case. Each High contracting party shall take measures necessary for the suppression of all acts contrary to the provisions of the present convention other than the grave breaches defined in the following Article. In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule III

Title: Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:- (Conflicts not of an international character.) (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking of hostages; (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment; (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilized peoples. (2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule II

Title: Second Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....or in sick-bays of portable arms and ammunition taken from the wounded, sick and shipwrecked and not yet handed to the proper service. (4) The fact that the humanitarian activities of hospital ships and sick-bays of vessels or of the crews extend to the care of wounded, sick or shipwrecked civilians. (5) The transport of equipment and of personnel intended exclusively for medical duties, over and above the normal requirements. CHAPTER IV PERSONNEL Article 36 The religious, medical and hospital personnel or hospital ships and their crews shall be respected and protected; they may not be captured during the time they are in the service of the hospital ship, whether or not there are wounded and sick on board. (Protection of the personnel of hospital ships.) Article 37 The religious, medical and hospital personnel assigned to the medical or spiritual care of the persons designated in Article 12 and 13 shall, if they fall into the hands of the enemy, be respected and protected; they may continue to carry out their duties as long as this is necessary for the care of the wounded and sick. They shall afterwards be sent back as soon as the commander-in-chief, under.....

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule IV

Title: Fourth Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....to in this Article. In no case shall requisition of labour lead to a mobilization of workers in an organization of a military or semi-military character. Article 52 No contract, agreement or regulation shall impair the right of any worker, whether voluntary or not and wherever he may be, to apply to the representatives of the Protecting Power in order to request the said Power's intervention. (Protection of workers) All measures aiming at creating unemployment or at restricting the opportunities offered to workers in an occupied territory, in order to induce them to work for the Occupying Power, are prohibited. Article 53 Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social or co-operative organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations. (Prohibited destruction) Article 54 The Occupying Power may not alter the status of public officials or judges in the occupied territories, or in any way apply sanctions to or take any measures of coercion or discrimination.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....To meet the immediate requirements of the country soon after independence the Merchant Shipping Laws. (Extension to Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 was enacted, by which the British Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1938 were extended to the Acceding States (later known as Part B States) and Indian Consular Officers were empowered to perform functions in relation to Indian ships outside India and provision was made to enable Government to prescribe the proper national colours for ships registered in India, The Control of Shipping Act, 1947, was another short-term measure which continued the war-time control over Indian shipping and controlled the coastal trade by a system of licensing. This Act, which has been renewed from time to time, is due to expire on the 31st March, 1958. 3. The present Bill revises and consolidates all laws in force in India relating to merchant shipping, whether passed by the British Parliament or the Indian Legislature, and makes provision for the matters discussed in the succeedihg paragraphs, which also indicate the principal changes made in the law ........... -Gaz. of Ind., 1958, Extra., Pt. II, S. 2, p. 203.Act 21 of 1966.- The minimum.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 28

Title: Marking of Ship

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) The owner of an Indian ship who applies for registry under this Act shall, before registry, cause her to be marked permanently and conspicuously in the prescribed manner and to the satisfaction of the registrar and any ship not so marked may be detained by the registrar. (2) Subject to any other provision contained in this act and to the provisions of any rules made there under, the owner and the master of an Indian ship shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the ship remains marked as required by this section, and the said owner or master shall not cause or permit any alterations of such marks to be made except in the event of any of the particulars thereby denoted being altered in the manner provided in this Act or except to evade capture by the enemy or by a foreign ship of war in the exercise of some belligerent right.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 64

Title: Unlawful Assumption of Indian Character

State: Central

Year: 1958

No person on board a ship which is not an Indian ship shall, for the purpose of making it appear to be an Indian ship, use the Indian national c6lours, unless the assumption of Indian character has been made (the burden of proving which shall lie on him) for the purpose of escaping capture by the enemy or by a foreign ship of war in the exercise of some belligerent right.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part IX

Title: Safety

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....at Sea (known briefly as the Safety Convention) of 1960, replacing the Safety Convention of 1948. This Convention contains a provision for the enactment and promulgation by Contracting Governments of laws and regulations to give effect to its provisions. This Convention came into force on the 17-6-1960. For definition of "Safety Convention",see Section 3 (37). Section 283A - Definitions 1[283A. Definitions (1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "existing ship" or "existing vessel" means a ship or vessel which is not a new ship or a new vessel, (b) "new ship" or "new vessel" means a ship or vessel whose keel is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after the material date as defined in sub-section (2). (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) "material date",- (i) in relation to an Indian ship, means the 21st July, 1968: (ii) in relation to a foreign ship belonging to a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, means the date as from which it is declared under section 283 that the Government of such country has accepted the Load Line Convention or, as the case may be, that the said Convention has been applied.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 314

Title: Maintenance of Load Line Marks

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) No owner or master of an Indian ship which has been marked in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Pan, shall without reasonable cause, fail to keep the ship so marked. (2) No person shall conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate, or suffer any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate any mark placed on any such ship in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part except with the authority of a person entitled under the load line rules to authorise the alteration of the mark or except for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy or by a foreign ship of war in the exercise of some belligerent right.